Maryland Transportation Authority Police

By Brent Jones and Jessica Anderson, The Baltimore Sun | July 16, 2010

A motorcyclist suffered non-life-threatening injuries after he collided with a car off Route 170 near Amtrak Way on Friday morning, police said. The accident caused airport officials to reroute buses from the Amtrak station, a spokeswoman for BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport said. But by 10 a.m., roads were reopened and the scene was cleared, said a spokesperson with the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Police said the crash happened about 100 yards north of Amtrak Way at about 7:25 a.m. The motorcycle rider was taken by ambulance to Maryland Shock Trauma and the driver of the car was treated at the scene, police said.

Frank J. "Gus" Vogel, an official of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, died of cancer Wednesday at the University of Maryland Medical Center. The Chase resident was 60. Born in Baltimore, he was the son of Frank John Vogel and Margaret Vogel. He was a graduate of Parkville High School, where he played baseball and football. He earned an associate's degree at Essex Community College. Mr. Vogel was a statistician for an insurance business before joining the Maryland Transportation Authority Police in 1993.

Wreckage from a two-car accident this morning on southbound Interstate 95 near the Baltimore Beltway has been cleared and all lanes reopened, easing a backup during the morning commute, according to police. The accident occurred about 6:15 a.m. near Caton Avenue, temporarily forcing police to shut down all four lanes. Cpl. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police, said the two vehicles collided and spun across the busy highway. One driver was taken to University of Maryland Medical Center with minor injuries; the driver of the other car was not injured.

A tractor-trailer that flipped on the Bay Bridge last week was carrying a load too light for the gusty conditions, a situation made worse when the trailer's soft canvas wall caught the wind like a sail, transportation authorities said Friday. "The vehicle shouldn't have been there," said Sgt. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. The truck's driver, James T. Savage Jr., 53 of Owings Mills, received a $90 citation for failing to obey highway signs warning of wind restrictions on the bridge, Green said.

Traffic going to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is backed up on Interstate 195 to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (Route 295). A representative of the Maryland State Police Glen Burnie barrack said that there was an accident on a ramp near the intersection. Shortly after 10 p.m. officers were on the way to the scene. Maryland Transportation Authority Police, who handle incidents on the highway approaching the airport, did not have any additional information about the incident.

Aberdeen police are investigating a fatal accident Wednesday afternoon at the intersection of Aberdeen Thruway and Post Road in Harford County. Joseph Anthony Moor, 31, of Havre de Grace, was driving a 2003 Ford pickup when he struck the side of a tractor trailer operated by Wayne Todd Jr. of Baltimore. Moor died at the scene, police said. Todd was not injured. The cause of the crash is still under investigation by the Maryland State Police, the Maryland Transportation Authority Police and the Aberdeen Police Department Crash Team.

Four people, including an 8-year-old boy, were transported to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Wednesday morning after a vehicle traveling north on Interstate 895 crossed a highway median into oncoming traffic, according to Maryland Transportation Authority police. A total of six vehicles were involved in the subsequent collision, which occurred shortly before 8 a.m. just north of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and closed the highway in both directions, said Sgt. Jonathan Green, a police spokesman.

A 46-year-old state employee died after he was struck by a truck Tuesday morning at the Dundalk Marine Terminal, according to Maryland Transportation Authority police. The man, who worked for the Maryland Environmental Service, was struck about 10:15 a.m. near Berth No. 14 at the port of Baltimore, said Sgt. Jonathan Green, a transportation police spokesman. The victim was hit by a three-axle truck owned and operated by the environmental agency, Green said. The man had been driving the truck, parked it and got out, and a few seconds later, realized the it was moving, Green said.

Two back-to-back crashes at the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore on Thursday afternoon left one person injured and closed one of the tunnel's four traffic bores for more than an hour as emergency crews responded, according to Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Emergency personnel responded about noon to the third northbound bore of the Interstate 95 tunnel and found two accidents involving three vehicles and a commercial truck, one just outside the tunnel and one inside of it, said Sgt. Kirk Perez, a police spokesman.

A tractor-trailer that flipped on the Bay Bridge last week was carrying a load too light for the gusty conditions, a situation made worse when the trailer's soft canvas wall caught the wind like a sail, transportation authorities said Friday. "The vehicle shouldn't have been there," said Sgt. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. The truck's driver, James T. Savage Jr., 53 of Owings Mills, received a $90 citation for failing to obey highway signs warning of wind restrictions on the bridge, Green said.

Two back-to-back crashes at the Fort McHenry Tunnel in Baltimore on Thursday afternoon left one person injured and closed one of the tunnel's four traffic bores for more than an hour as emergency crews responded, according to Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Emergency personnel responded about noon to the third northbound bore of the Interstate 95 tunnel and found two accidents involving three vehicles and a commercial truck, one just outside the tunnel and one inside of it, said Sgt. Kirk Perez, a police spokesman.

Four people, including an 8-year-old boy, were transported to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center on Wednesday morning after a vehicle traveling north on Interstate 895 crossed a highway median into oncoming traffic, according to Maryland Transportation Authority police. A total of six vehicles were involved in the subsequent collision, which occurred shortly before 8 a.m. just north of the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and closed the highway in both directions, said Sgt. Jonathan Green, a police spokesman.

Wails and screams echoed through the halls of the Clarence M. Mitchell Jr. Courthouse on Friday, as relatives and friends of two teenage girls absorbed the fact that no one would be imprisoned for their hit-and-run deaths on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard last June. About two dozen relatives and friends comforted each other after walking out of the small courtroom they had packed for the two-day trial of Reuben Dunn. When the jury foreman read off "not guilty" on each of three charges, the supporters gasped, some weeping and others shaking in anger.

The driver of a tractor-trailer that crashed on southbound Interstate 95 Wednesday evening has been charged with driving while impaired by alcohol, police said. Glenn Grise, 46, of West Orange, N.J., crashed a semitrailer around 8:15 p.m. on an overpass above Interstate 895, turning the truck over in the left lane of I-95, just north of the Harbor Tunnel, according to Sgt. Kirk Perez, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Grise's truck was registered to the New Jersey-based G. Grise Trucking company, Perez said.

Traffic going to Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport is backed up on Interstate 195 to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (Route 295). A representative of the Maryland State Police Glen Burnie barrack said that there was an accident on a ramp near the intersection. Shortly after 10 p.m. officers were on the way to the scene. Maryland Transportation Authority Police, who handle incidents on the highway approaching the airport, did not have any additional information about the incident.

They were best friends since kindergarten and lived a block apart in South Baltimore's Pigtown. One was feisty, the other shy. Monday night, they set off to meet an acquaintance, crossing Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. A car heading south struck Courtney Angeles, 16, and Emerald Smith, 17, at West Pratt Street and sped off without stopping, according to city police. The teens were rushed to nearby Maryland Shock Trauma Center, where they died early Tuesday, nine minutes apart.

Police have identified a motorcyclist killed Monday evening while traveling south on Interstate 395 in post-Orioles game traffic. Patrick Anthony Slack-Valentino, a 23-year-old man from Fort Belvoir, a military installation in Northern Virginia, was traveling on his Harley-Davidson about 6:25 p.m. when he lost control of the motorcycle and fell off, said Sgt. Jonathan Green, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority police. Slack-Valentino, who was wearing a helmet, Green said, was pronounced dead at the scene.

The driver of a tractor-trailer that crashed on southbound Interstate 95 Wednesday evening has been charged with driving while impaired by alcohol, police said. Glenn Grise, 46, of West Orange, N.J., crashed a semitrailer around 8:15 p.m. on an overpass above Interstate 895, turning the truck over in the left lane of I-95, just north of the Harbor Tunnel, according to Sgt. Kirk Perez, a spokesman for the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Grise's truck was registered to the New Jersey-based G. Grise Trucking company, Perez said.

A 46-year-old state employee died after he was struck by a truck Tuesday morning at the Dundalk Marine Terminal, according to Maryland Transportation Authority police. The man, who worked for the Maryland Environmental Service, was struck about 10:15 a.m. near Berth No. 14 at the port of Baltimore, said Sgt. Jonathan Green, a transportation police spokesman. The victim was hit by a three-axle truck owned and operated by the environmental agency, Green said. The man had been driving the truck, parked it and got out, and a few seconds later, realized the it was moving, Green said.